Doctor Strange

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:31:32 GMT

Orientalism

People have commented on this much better than I can and I didn't have much to add. I avoided seeing it in the cinema, but after some debate decided I was interested to see what it was like.

I thought that overall it was less fail-tastic than I expected, despite the big failures right in the middle.

Good things

Many people got over-Cumberbatched, but "arrogant ass who becomes worthwhile arrogant ass" is a good role for him.

The reality bending stuff was very well done, it looked very natural as a "we have weird power of reality but the fighting is somehow a mix of sorcery and martial arts".

And the other-dimension stuff was psychedelic and quite freaky.

I actually got invested in his journey from arrogant doctor to desperate drop-out to apprentice to equal with the masters. Some of the medical scenes were legitimately tense.

The learning scenes were good too, it really captured the feel of learning sorcery/martial arts.

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